May 19th is Agender Pride Day, an occasion for us all to learn about the Agender community, uplift Agender voices, and reaffirm the inextricable and incredibly valuable place Agender people have in the GSRD community.

The Agender label falls under the Non-Binary umbrella as a distinct identity. Where Bigender folks feel connected to both ‘man’ and ‘woman,’ and Third-Gender folks feel as though their gender cannot be categorized as either, Agender people feel as though they have no gender at all. This is often described as a disconnect to the concept of gender as a whole, or sometimes as a ‘void’ where gender would often be, although experiences will always vary across a community.

Agender people might use any set or combination of pronouns, including not only they/them but also he/him or she/her, or a set of neopronouns such as xe/xem or ze/hir, even if some of those may be considered ‘gendered.’ We must make sure to remember that the pronouns someone uses are not always dependent on their gender identity. Alternate labels that tend to belong to the Agender community include Gendervoid, Genderless, Ungendered, or Nullgender.